Distributed language and dynamics

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20484197
AutoresStephen J Cowley (0000-0002-5374-9889, University of Hertfordshire, UK and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume17
Fascículo3
Páginas495-508
Data de publicação2009-12-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPragmatics & Cognition (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0929-0907 • E-ISSN: 1569-9943
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/pc.17.3.01cow
OpenAlexW2034387591
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas29

Language is coordination. Pursuing this, the present Special Issue of Pragmatics & Cognition challenges two widely held positions. First, the papers reject the claim that language is essentially ‘symbolic’. Second, they deny that minds (or brains) represent verbal patterns. Rather, language is social, individual, and contributes the feeling of thinking. Simply, it is distributed . Elucidating this claim, the opening papers report empirically-based work on the anticipatory dynamics of reading, their cognitive consequences, Shakespearean theatre, what images evoke, and insight problem-solving. Having given reasons for rejecting linguistic autonomy, the papers turn to theory building. Initially, attention is given to a possible origin for semiotic cognition. Then, it is claimed that language functions by realizing values. Next, it is argued that human dynamics are co-regulated by cultural and biological symbols. Finally, in a review article, the distributed view of language is used to contrast Clark’s (2008) organism-centered cognition with what is here called ecologically extended cognition

Autonomy · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Feeling · Linguistics · Pragmatics · Semiotics · Computer Science · Language and cultural evolution · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social Psychology